One freezer has a half of a spike elk that dressed @ 375lbs. this takes up two full shelves.Then I have one full shelve of king & coho fillets.Then there's one shelf of sea-bass and halibut.The other up rite freezer has one full shelf of coho & king fillets and one full bottom basket of cured egg's and a half of shelf of cured egg's.I'm out of razor's.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

I wish I had some packets of crappie and perch in my freezer, but the few I had were quickly eaten. Usually I'll get several packets of perch from Fall fishing in Lake Washington, but only got out once this year so had a limited supply.

Always seem to have plenty of halibut and salmon from Alaska and B.C. trips and more salmon from here in Washington.

That brings up an interesting thought regarding limits, my fish from B.C. and Alaska usually are packaged with the name of the lodge I've been to, but if they were not, it could be confusing if mixed with Washington caught salmon if it exceeded the 40 pounds of processed salmon allowed for Washington caught fish.

Concerning the limit on fish you allowed in the freezer. I saw that in the regs but does a game warden have the right to come into your house and look in your freezer and tell you have to much fish then right you a ticket.
That has got to be one of the gayest laws that WDFW has and there is many.

Well, I try to keep the stock of "unidentified freezer fish" fairly low by smoking about as many as I put away... but roughly it looks like this right now (some of which were caught by the kids, in case someone decides the posession limit truly does apply to your home freezer):

House freezer:
5 lbs perch fillets
15 lbs walleye fillets
10 lbs catfish fillets
3 steelhead
80 lbs salmon fillets
5 lbs sturgeon fillet

Bait freezer:
8 lbs sardines
2 lbs herring
15 lbs baitshrimp
20 lbs cured eggs
6 shad

Here's half of it.

Calm down everybody....

There is no need to worry about the fish cops busting into your house to check your freezer.

The possession limit only applies to "in the field" or "in transit". It does not apply to "ordinary residences." Here are the specific quotes from the definitions pages of the rules:


"POSSESSION LIMIT
The number of daily limits allowed to be
kept in the field, or in transit."

"IN THE FIELD OR IN TRANSIT
Anywhere other than at an ordinary
residence. Dockside fish cleaning facilities,
boat ramps, and cold storage lockers are
considered in the field."

"ORDINARY RESIDENCE
A residential dwelling where a person normally lives, with associated features
such as address, telephone number, utility
account, etc. A motorhome or camper parked
at a campsite is not considered to be an
ordinary residence."

What does all this mean? It means that so long as you abide by the daily limits and/or possession limits, you can have as much fish in your home freezer as you care to store.


Sebastes: see page 23 of the regs pertaining to salmon and shellfish caught in Canada.

Steelhead Dreaming: I don't agree that it is a "gay" law. Rather, I believe that the rule was imposed to prevent a person from illegally overlimiting on any given single day, and then telling the enforcement officers, while in the field, that the fish in the cooler is a week's worth of fishing limits, with a legal limit being taken on each day.

The rule at least forces a person to take the fish home, and freeze, cook, or store it, before going out for additional legal limits on subsequent consecutive days.


Greatone28: I would guess that those Neah Bay folks were probably staying at a campsite or hotel. Therefore, under the specific language of the rules, the fish in their portable freezer would have to comply with the possession rules.

Knowing a number of agents, trust me, they have better things to do than write a search warrant for your frozen fish. The exception to that would be if you were selling it illegally AKA- non-Boldt decision fish poaching ring......


I was hoping that more of you would take pictures of your freezer as I did after a few beers. Things like that always has my wife shaking her head. "You must be on that stupid fishing web-site again"

goinfishin...
mine calls it fish porn
I keep giving my surplus away to the neibors, they are to old, infirm to fish but they love it!!!
I am down to 30-40 lbs of salmon... no ling cod and 20lbs or so of sturgeon...

It was stacked to the rafters with fillets, but I just spent two days smoking fish for Christmas presents. The tule kings go to the inlaws tomorrow.

Sebastes: see page 23 of the regs pertaining to salmon and shellfish caught in Canada.

Thanks.

I made a trip to Namu several years ago on Westwind Tugboat Adventures and brought back 8 silvers. When I came through U.S. Customs, the agent asked me if I was bringing anything in from Canada and I said no, thinking that I hadn't bought anything in Canada.

He then said are you sure?

I still replied no, when he gave me a big grin and said jokingly, " fish, stupid".

We both got a laugh out of it.

This thread is interesting. I just finished putting about 80# of Chinook fillets in the dry cure for smoking on Wednesday. As I took the vacuum packed fish out I realized that I had way too much salmon. I uncovered shrimp frozen in brine and even some fresh mint, strawberries, cherries and apples from the yard some tuna, sturgeon and sea bass....I can't even see past all the salmon...Too many fish pushing 50#..some awesome fillets though. My customers are in for a treat on thursday. Two more freezers out in the garage too .

sol: thats too funny I had a boss once that was a real knob, he asked for some salmon once and I gave him a chum fillet and told him it was albino chinook.

In the freezer we have

3 limits razor clams
20 lbs albacore loins
10 lbs steelhead
50 lbs coho -chinook fillets
20 rock bass and lings
40 lbs halibut
10 lbs smoked tuna bellies

and in the corner of the garage we have 7 cases of canned tuna in pint jars.

Other than slipping out a fishing a couple of hours today I've been smoking salmon for the past 2 days. Fed-X is going to love me tomorrow as I have nearly 75 lbs smoked and ready to go.
I have an old fridge/freezer in the garage that I use for fish, bait, beer, and watermelon. I also have a big chest freezer that does the serious storage. I have about 20#'s of silver filets, 20#'s of walleye filets (best eating fish out there), 50#'s of halibut, 50#'s of yellowfin tuna, 100+ lbs of elk, 4 turkeys, 10#'s of assorted cured salmon eggs, and a few bags of badly dehydrated bags of veggies.
I prefer my salmon and steelies fresh rather than frozen, so what I freeze usually gets smoked. When I go to BC I usually give most of the fish away to family, and to friends who can't get out anymore.

I took a couple of pix. I'll try to get them up in a couple of days

My freezer has zero frozen fish. If I can't eat it fresh then it get's smoked. I get out often enough and to enough places that I get plenty of nice fresh salmon to eat. I'm with SalmoG on this one. I also provide a fairly good supply of fresh salmon to the patients at my rehab clinic.

Okay here are some pix from the garage freezers ... I didn't inlcude the inside top of fridge freezer nor the empty one we use to travel with.

Freezer 1:



For all you clam junkies, here's a closer look :p :p



Here's a look into the next one:



Got some room left for some mahi-mahi

WHAT!

No TV Dinners?

Hate 'em ... plus not nearly enough food for me

Added 6 prime ribs since I took the pix when we visted Mom & Dad for Xmas ... $3.99 pound, can't pass that up.

My idea of TV dinner? The "SpagBowl".

Nedd I explain???

two frezzers, both full deer, elk, Antelope, tuna, Halibut, lingcod, Black rocks, yellow Eye (from Canada), silvers springers, steelhead, crab clams, 50lbs eggs, summer sausage, tuna, dolphin. The last few years have been good.

Getting kinda low on fish... some halibut and rockfish remains. Went through the salmon already. We eat fish about every other day. Oh, lots of herring still. But I intend to transfer that currency into salmon starting in February and fresh crab in June.